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Biographical and critical works include Robert E. Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography (1977, reissued 1986); Lillie P. Howard, Zora Neale Hurston (1980); Karla F.C. Holloway, The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston (1987); Michael Awkward (ed.), New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God (1990); Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah (eds.), Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (1993); John Lowe, Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Cosmic Comedy (1994); Deborah G. Plant, Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston (1995); Carla Kaplan (ed.), Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (2001); and Valerie Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (2003).

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Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Experience - Zora Neale Hurston, In Her Element. Sep 12, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Radio 4 - Seriously..., Seriously... - The death and rebirth of Zora Neale Hurston. Mar 05, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 24, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 03, 2026
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - Zora Neale Hurston, In Her Element. Jun 25, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 14, 2025
Noted the publication of The Life of Herod the Great. Feb 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - The �Pre-Postmodern� Ethnomusicology of Zora Neale Hurston (PDF). Jan 04, 2025
Add new Web site: The Kennedy Centre - Zora Neale Hurston. Nov 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). Sep 27, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 14, 2024
Add new Web site: The University of Tennessee Knoxville - TRACE - Zora Neale Hurston: Scientist, Folklorist, Storyteller. Feb 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Florida Center for Instructional Technology - Famous Floridians: Zora Neale Hurston. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: New-York Historical Society - Women & the American Story - Life Story: Zora Neale Hurston (1891�1960). Sep 12, 2023
Article revised. Sep 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Zora Neale Hurston. Aug 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Alabama - Biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Mar 23, 2023
Links added. Jan 26, 2023
Media added. Sep 27, 2021
Add new Web site: Florida Department of State - Division of Cultural Affairs - Zora Neale Hurston. Jun 13, 2021
Corrected display issue. Jan 07, 2021
Added the nonfiction work Barracoon. May 08, 2018
Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Oct 21, 2014
Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Oct 21, 2014
Add new Web site: National Women's History Museum - Biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Mar 11, 2014
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - Biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Jul 22, 2013
Add new Web site: Women in History - Biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Sep 18, 2012
Add new Web site: Official Site of Zora Neale Hurston. Sep 18, 2012
Added new Web site: American Studies at the University of Virginia - "Mules and Men" by Zora Neale Hurston. Jun 29, 2006
Added new Web site: American Studies at the University of Virginia - "Mules and Men" by Zora Neale Hurston. Jun 29, 2006
Added new Web site: American Studies at the University of Virginia - "Mules and Men" by Zora Neale Hurston. Jun 29, 2006
Added new Web site: American Studies at the University of Virginia - "Mules and Men" by Zora Neale Hurston. Jun 29, 2006
Article revised. Sep 18, 2003
Article revised. Dec 09, 1999
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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